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Ask UEFL - Reds Get Balk-Off Win as Rays Pitcher Matt Wisler Called by Umpire Moscoso

After HP Umpire Edwin Moscoso's game-ending balk call in extra innings, we received several questions about Tampa Bay pitcher Matt Wisler's glove movement and whether it was actually a balk. Article: https://www.closecallsports.com/2022/... The short and long of this analysis is simply complex: it is illegal, but may not be an actual balk, but that depends on who you ask, and if you ask a long-timer in the game, it's probably not a balk, but if you ask a newer person, it is a balk, but it's also not a balk because a balk is not a not-balk. Official Baseball Rule 5.07(a)(2) says that before assuming Set Position, the pitcher may go into the stretch and in coming set from stretch, the pitcher's movement shall be "without interruption and in one continuous motion." Moscoso thus read the situation as Wisler raising and lowering his glove, which violated OBR 5.07(a)(2) because it was an interrupted motion. This is called a start-stop and Moscoso thus called a start-stop balk. Some baseball people say this stretch-to-set time period is NOT balk-able in the sense that a start-stop going from stretch-to-set is not explicitly included in baseball's list of balk infractions, pursuant to OBR 6.02(a). Some baseball people disagree and say this IS a balk situation because the rulebook is poorly written and this has always been called a balk under the "common practice balk" premise elucidated by former big league umpire and former Jim Evans Academy for Professional Umpiring owner-instructor, Jim Evans. There is no official interpretation about whether a stop-start infraction during stretch-set is a balk or just a penalty-free don't-do-that admonishment. Finally, was pitcher Wisler just asking for signs from the catcher instead (probably)? But Moscoso ruled that with Wisler engaged with the rubber, this movement violated OBR 5.07(a)(2) because it was an interrupted action. Which means that despite all the rules issues mentioned above, this comes down to a difference of opinion and interpretation where the active call of BALK always wins out over the passive no-call of no-balk. In review, HP Umpire Moscoso and 2B umpire Lance Barrett appeared to signal the balk, while 1B Umpire (Crew Chief) Alfonso Marquez and 3B Umpire Ramon De Jesus did not. That doesn't mean it was or wasn't a balk, just that when there's a difference of opinion, the balk usually wins.